Graduate Minor
Why Consider a Graduate Minor?
The graduate minor in gender & women's studies offers sophisticated training in feminist theory and methodology to graduate students who want to incorporate gender & women's studies into their degree work. Because gender has become a central category of analysis in many disciplines and fields, the graduate minor strengthens students' formal credentials and offers a versatile area of specialization.
Eligibility
The following UIUC Departments or Colleges have approved a Graduate Minor in Gender & Women's Studies at the MS and PhD levels:
- Anthropology
- Art & Design
- Communications Research
- Community Health
- Comparative & World Literature
- Consumer Sciences
- East Asian Languages and Cultures
- Economics
- Educational Policy Studies
- Educational Psychology
- English
- French
- Germanic Languages and Literatures
- History
- Human and Community Development
- Kinesiology
- Labor and Industrial Relations
- Law
- Leisure Studies
- Library and Information Science
- Medicine
- Music
- Philosophy
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Social Work
- Sociology
- Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
- Speech Communication
- Theatre
Requirements
The course requirements for the Graduate Minor in Gender & Women's Studies are as follows:
GWS 550, "Feminist Scholarship in the Humanities: Theory and Method"
or
GWS 570, "Feminist Scholarship in the Social Sciences: Theory and Research."Two additional 400 or 500-level Gender & Women's Studies courses, at least one of which must originate outside the student's home department.GWS 550 or 570, whichever is not counted as the core course above, may serve as one of the additional courses.
Applications for the Graduate Minor in Gender & Women's Studies require prior approval by the appropriate administration officer from the student's home department. For more information on educational programs, contact Jacque Kahn or at the GWS office (333-2990).
